A $2,000 fund allocated by Penn Wellness will facilitate the expansion of this year's series and broaden its focus to different and more diverse areas of Penn, organizers said in a recent interview.

“It did not live up to my expectations,” Zhang said. “Reading the description, I thought there would be a lot more activities, a lot more sharing.”

“The goal of this year’s theme was to follow the retail process all the way from ideating the product to actually moving it onto the shelf,” Penn Fashion Week COO Daniel Jacobs said.

Penn's Dance Marathon was able to bring in six different performing arts groups as well as instructors from Pottruck Health and Fitness Center to perform and teach dances throughout the day. 

“I kind of cloistered myself because I was scared of what would happen,” Victoria Mak said. “Those ten minutes before I found out were the longest ten minutes of my life.”

The Kelly Writers House held its annual Marathon Reading program on Thursday, where students and faculty took turns reading out loud from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy series.

Yesterday, the Philadelphia Museum of Art broke ground for its new expansion project. The renovation, called the Core Project, is a $196 million endeavor which will be the museum’s most extensive renovation yet.

These Holy Trinity parties, where the bar only plays music by Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj or Rihanna, happen about once a month and often have Penn students in attendance.

Three Penn alumni are currently members of the Philadelphia City Council. Here’s a brief introduction to each one of them.

“I said, well, that’s weird not to be accepted to this group that seemed like they should want more people to talk about rape and sexual assault,” Butkiewicz said. 

The Undergraduate Assembly and Student Activities Council have partnered to make club recruitment a less stressful and more fair process by passing six new guidelines. 

For Zhou, sleep is a vital component to her well-being. The Detroit native said health is her “number one priority” and getting enough sleep allows her to work more efficiently in the mornings and throughout the day.

“Overall, I think the point of the panels was really to elevate [youth] voices over professional voices because they are the experts on their lives,” Rosemary Thomas, Program Coordinator for the Penn Medicine Program for LGBT Health said. “It’s really powerful for professionals to hear real life experiences if they haven’t before”

Penn Design lecturer Gabe Martinez said viewing Cuban art and interacting with Cuban artists influenced students' projects and so the content of some of their projects actually shifted in turn.

Lee and Oh began creating the app during the 2016 presidential campaign because they felt the ways in which people got their news had an unprecedented impact on the election result.

Wharton freshmen Victoria Sacchetti and Katrina Arman completed an obstacle course to win the prize.

“You learn to dance from the elders in your tribe,” Dienes said. “So you don’t want to do the same moves that your mom and dad did.”